Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
So that from his body were brought unto the sick handkerchiefs or aprons, etc.—Compare Acts 5:15-16, very different from the magical acts practiced at Ephesus. "God wrought these miracles" merely "by the hands of Paul"; and the very exorcists (Acts 19:13), observing that the name of Jesus was the secret of all his miracles, hoped, by aping him in this, to be equally successful; while the result of all in the "magnifying of the Lord Jesus" (Acts 19:17) showed that in working them the apostle took care to hold up Him whom he preached as the source of all the miracles which he wrought.
God wrought special—no ordinary
miracles by the hands of Paul—implying that he had not been accustomed to work such.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 19:12:
Acts 5:15
1 Corinthians 16:9
2 Timothy 4:20
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